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Huntington adds Marsh locomotive painting to American art collection
Once the great estate of a railroad tycoon, the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens has just become home to a painting of a powerful locomotive. Last week a group of art collectors helped the Huntington buy a 1935 Reginald Marsh...
Tags: Washington, DC, Arts and Culture
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Inside the Huntington story
"Masterpiece Theatre" has nothing on the real-life, rags-to-riches saga that led to the founding of the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino. This singularly American story of an extraordinary family dynasty...
Tags: Gilded Age, Libraries, Research, Authors, Museums
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Former L.A. Times art critic William Wilson dies at 78
William Wilson, who wrote art criticism for the Los Angeles Times for more than three decades, died Saturday after suffering from Alzheimer's disease for several years. He was 78. Wilson, who was diagnosed with the disease four years ago, passed away...
Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Fine Artists, Obituaries, University of California, Los Angeles, Artists
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Hand over the book, Britain, it's the Getty's
When British authorities the other day denied an export license for a 15th-century Flemish manuscript acquired last December by the J. Paul Getty Museum at a London auction, few could have been surprised. Stopping the export of exceptional works of...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Politics, Culture, The Getty, National Government
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USC and MOCA are in talks about 'a possible partnership'
Los Angeles' Museum of Contemporary Art and the University of Southern California are in talks about a possible partnership that would link the ambitious private university with the fiscally struggling downtown museum. Responding to Los Angeles Times...
Tags: J. Paul Getty Trust, Economy, Business and Finance, University of California, Los Angeles, Artists, Los Angeles Times
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Southern California Close-Ups: Pasadena and environs
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterFirst published on Nov. 27, 2011. Revised and expanded in early 2012. It's 1922, and nothing much is up in Pasadena. Not among the orange groves, not along the leafy streets. Just as the little old ladies like it. But wait. Down in the Arroyo Seco, a...Tags: Nat King Cole, University of California, Los Angeles, Charles Bukowski, China Earthquake (2010), Macy's
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Art review: Unearthing a rare treasure at Huntington Library
The San Gabriel Mountains rise to imposing heights behind a tiny rural outpost. An alpine lake in the Sierra lies still in a frame of snowdrifts, rocky peaks and moss-covered stones. A narrow path disappears into a field of yellow flowers stretching...
Tags: Edward Hopper, Fine Artists, Benjamin West, Artists, Painting
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PASSINGS: Richard J. Sheirer, Jiri Raska, Jack Lionel Warner
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NYC emergency official at time of 9/11
Richard J. Sheirer, 65, the former New York City emergency management chief who helped guide the city through the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, died Thursday after experiencing chest pains....Tags: Clubs and Associations, Brooklyn (New York City), Cancer, Architecture, Human Interest
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Visiting out West? Here's a SoCal traveler's cheat sheet
Los Angeles Times staff writerFor most of the last 20 years, it’s been my job to leave Los Angeles and bring home tips on travel elsewhere. But let’s face it: Elsewhere can get expensive. And there’s a lot of elsewhere here already. So a year ago, I turned my...Tags: Hermosa, Marilyn Monroe, Wolfgang Puck, Research, Charles Bukowski
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Huntington still closed; Sunday reopening possible
Culture MonsterThe Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens will remain closed through Saturday, the institution announced Friday, because of damage from the high winds that battered the San Gabriel Valley Wednesday night. A Huntington spokesman said...
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